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tonight upon locking up all of my poultry i noticed my hen turkey is looking a little frail.. her feathers are thin in the breast area as well as her breast bone showing. she lays almost daily, i know her and the tom have some rough looking intercourse quite often. would that play a part? or is...

have 2 blue slate turkey poults. they are silver, should stay the lavender color. about a week old and hatched under the mom. i was letting them be natural but one of the babies died we think it got cold, so we now have the last 2 in a brooder. looking for local pick up near morrow ohio. message...

i have 2 chicks bresse/orphington cross that we hatched about 2 weeks ago. now we seen turkey poults at rural king were on sale yesterday. we bought 4 and put in same brooder as the chicks. should i feed them chick starter, or the showbird crumbles? or will the higher protein harm the chicks...

i have had 3 hatch and one loss so far, also one that didnt make it out of the shell. but i have some more in there should be any day now. and have a dozen turkey eggs getting ready to go in too.

this morning we had our first egg in our first hatch actually hatch. its an orphington/bresse. too excited, the 4 year old, kid, is in love with the new member, checking on it and what not. have a second egg chirping now as i write this. so due to being at work for the first one im determined to...

i would say more like black with bronze tips on her tail and stuff. to me she looks like a wild one. she is not like the pix of slate hens that i have seen. ill see if i can get some pix on here for yall to judge. the lady said the mom was lavender, i saw her and she was, but the dad wasnt so...

i bought 2 last summer, well he is definately blue slate, but the hen looks more like a wild turkey now. she is dark in color. is that normal of did i get some cross breed there on her side? her mom was on the farm and definately slate, but the tom was pretty dark. anyway, she lays eggs about...

thanks guys. ill be sure to seclude her a little bit tomorrow. she has a doghouse she hid and has been staying in. only time the others go in is to lay more eggs for her to steal. ill close the door and put a screen in the other side to let her see and get light along with food and water. thanks...

thanks for the advice, ill keep it all in mind, my rooster now is very aggressive and will chase the kids and kick me when im not paying attention to him. i have orphington chicks, i love the one hen orphie i have. so i got more. my roo is a white bresse, and now currently have a bunch of eggs...

i have a silkie hen that has a nest of eggs, she started with 2 and in a week has gathered 8 more chicken eggs and 3 turkey eggs under her. is it normal for her to try so hard to hatch any egg she can? should i put her in her own house, like a brooder and keep the others out and just give her...

how exactly do you know if theyre about to reach that point to take them out of the flock or butcher? theyre only a week old now, so i have plenty of time im sure

i have my first plan to raise 10-15 chicks i bought as a straight run specifically to slaughter them in the fall. im sure i wont have just femails with that many straight run chicks. my question is, if i have roos in there, what do i do with them untill they are of size to put in my freezer? or...

I've got a sickly buff Orphic. Feels like she's withering away and doesn't seem very stable. Bought some Tylan 50. Injection type, is there a ratio for water to put her on it?

I'm in cincinnati so it's getting in the 30s at night, that's why I was worried about the silkie as well, I have a rooster but he is white bresse.. And I have seen him jump on her.. She is also in one of the 3 nest boxes all alone.. Thanks for the advice

I have a few questions together- 1: I now have a silkie sitting on 2-3 eggs, normally she lays and goes on, does this mean they're fertile? 2: they are outside and the only insulation they have is a bunch of stray in the house, should I leave her or put her in the barn in the brooder? Maybe w a...

And what about wenzine?

So will it hurt us? Or make it taste funny? Will putting them on layer for a week or 2 harm them? I feed 12 on 12 off..

Yes that's what it has in it. The actual tag is gone but the bag says amprolium.. They are just for our table. I have some layers on laying crumble, and some younger cx and layers about 5 weeks so I keep in starter a little longer and grabbed the medicated bag. Wanting to slaughter the 2, 8...

Can I feed Cornish x chickens medicated chick feed until slaughter? Accidentally grabbed the wrong bag..

I have 5 cx and 2 are getting slaughtered in 2 weeks, can they be on medicated feed u till killed?